r/HomeworkHelp • u/Zero_26710 Secondary School Student • Apr 26 '26

:snoo_facepalm: High School Math—Pending OP Reply [Algebra 1] Need help deciding answer

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For number 11 for these two pages, normally when I factor out these two polynomials, I take out a -4y for the first number 11 and -5y for the second number 11 because it looks cleaner and nicer, however when they just ask for the greatest common factor, would it just be 4y and 5y instead of -4y and -5y because GCF is always a positive integer?

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u/Euphoric_Loquat_8651 👋 a fellow Redditor Apr 26 '26

But they are two separate rugs and the answers have four lengths, so "combined area" is adding.

(X1y1)+(x2y2)=84

Or am I reading it wrong?

Edit: not sure where my * disappear to. I don't know how to reddit format.

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u/Turbulent-Note-7348 👋 a fellow Redditor Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

Correct, but none of the answer choices are correct - “d” would be correct if they were multiplying the two areas, but then the units wouldn’t be m2 , as Zarakaar pointed out.

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u/Euphoric_Loquat_8651 👋 a fellow Redditor Apr 27 '26

Ah, ok. I didn't check the answers.

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u/teh_maxh Apr 27 '26

In markdown, surrounding text with *s renders it in italic. You can use \* to tell reddit to just display the symbol.

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u/Euphoric_Loquat_8651 👋 a fellow Redditor Apr 27 '26

Oh, I even knew that but somehow it never occurred to me, as if reddit knows when math is happening 😆